Philosophy Quotes

"The soul is always right in holding a grudge against the object that destroys it."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"A man may be born but in order to be born he must first die, and there is a time lapse between."

"Philosophy is the art of asking the questions everyone avoids."

"What we call coincidence is often the voice of necessity speaking softly."

"The world is so large that every opinion finds support somewhere."

"A man's character is his fate."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"I am convinced that materialism, as the basis of historical development, does not exclude the spiritual strivings of mankind."

"We are all ghosts haunting our own lives."

"The spaces between words hold more meaning than the words themselves."

"A poet does not choose her suffering; it chooses her."

"The human soul is a landscape of contradictions and wonder."

"The line separating good and evil passes not between states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart."

"Between good and evil there is an abyss, and between evil and good a gulf."

"If only it were so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds."

"We are neither gods nor beasts; we are something in between."

"What is evil? The absence of good."

"Philosophy teaches us how to live."

"Philosophy questions what others accept."

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

"Our existence is nothing but a film, shot and projected for a god."

"A person is, inter alia, a material thing."

"The depths of the human heart contain unmapped territories."

"The mind is its own place."

"Philosophy seeks eternal truths."

"How unwilling man is to admit his limitations."

"No one can escape their own nature."

"Within every cynic beats the heart of a disappointed idealist."

"The philosopher questions everything; the fool questions nothing."